Bossy Quotes - Page 2

• I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

  Carrie Coon

  Children, Thoughtful, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.

  Liza Johnson

  People, Ensemble, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Skills, Next

  38 Copy quote

• I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Girl, Thinking, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

  "'Lean In': Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Explains What's Holding Women Back". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Self

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

  Brenda Ueland

  People, Advice, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.

  Peta Credlin

  Strong, Guy, Details

  Source: www.smh.com.au

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

  Mamie Gummer

  Optimistic, Outspoken, Gregarious

  5 Copy quote

• I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!

  Kim Longinotto

  Wall, Hate, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mad, Suffering, Saint

  4 Copy quote

• We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

  Berit Brogaard

  Creative, Brain, Performing

  "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have problems, it's something to apologize for, to be embarrassed about, not to revel in. It's the perfectionist in me...That's why people call me the "bossy little thing"-I'm the bossiest person around.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Apologizing, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

  Drew Barrymore

  Different, Tactics, Way

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

  Liv Ullmann

  Phones, Voice, Feminist

  Source: www.themarysue.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Should Have, People

  8 Copy quote

• I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Freak, Producers, Really Long

  Interview with Mykki Blanco, www.thefader.com. 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Country, Roles

  8 Copy quote

• I've always been bossy.

  Shirley Temple

  11 Copy quote

• Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

  Myles Munroe

  Mean, Leader, Example

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.160, Destiny Image Publishers

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

  Jason Reitman

  Hands, Feelings, Pieces

  5 Copy quote

• When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Believe, Tyrants, Dangerous

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

  Ann Brashares

  Honesty, Fighting, Ivy

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.

  John Muir

  Country, Wall, Dark

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.38, e-artnow

  6 Copy quote

  Show source